Peter Dye
@peterdye.bsky.social
Teacher, learner, writer. Interests: applied linguistics, immigration, global education, the craft of writing, and the American South.
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I was proud to read from my story “In The Banana Boat’s Wake” published as the opening piece in the 2025 Emerald Coast Review.
It connects my grandfather’s work with United Fruit Co. and the life of my former student, an undocumented nursing major from Guatemala.
Digital version in bio
It connects my grandfather’s work with United Fruit Co. and the life of my former student, an undocumented nursing major from Guatemala.
Digital version in bio
October 28, 2025 at 9:55 AM
I was proud to read from my story “In The Banana Boat’s Wake” published as the opening piece in the 2025 Emerald Coast Review.
It connects my grandfather’s work with United Fruit Co. and the life of my former student, an undocumented nursing major from Guatemala.
Digital version in bio
It connects my grandfather’s work with United Fruit Co. and the life of my former student, an undocumented nursing major from Guatemala.
Digital version in bio
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On Tuesday, President Trump said during a Cabinet meeting that it was "very important" for foreign students to study in the U.S.
Today, the administration published a rule that many in higher ed fear could deter those same students from coming to the U.S.
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Today, the administration published a rule that many in higher ed fear could deter those same students from coming to the U.S.
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Establishing a Fixed Time Period of Admission and an Extension of Stay Procedure for Nonimmigrant Academic Students, Exchange Visitors, and Representatives of Foreign Information Media
Unlike most nonimmigrant classifications, which are admitted for a fixed time period, aliens in the F (academic student), J (exchange visitor), and most I (representatives of foreign information media...
www.federalregister.gov
August 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
On Tuesday, President Trump said during a Cabinet meeting that it was "very important" for foreign students to study in the U.S.
Today, the administration published a rule that many in higher ed fear could deter those same students from coming to the U.S.
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Today, the administration published a rule that many in higher ed fear could deter those same students from coming to the U.S.
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
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Sally Rooney could be arrested under Terrorism Act after pledging royalties to Palestine Action
Sally Rooney could be arrested under Terrorism Act after pledging royalties to Palestine Action
The bestselling novelist promised to financially support the group proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the British government
Irish novelist Sally Rooney could be arrested under the Terrorism Act after saying she intends to use proceeds from her work to support Palestine Action, which was proscribed as a terrorist organisation in the UK last month, a legal expert has warned.
Meanwhile, No 10 said that supporting the group was an offence under the act, after Rooney had made her pledge. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
August 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Sally Rooney could be arrested under Terrorism Act after pledging royalties to Palestine Action
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“People were disappearing everywhere.”
—Zack Ford details the aftermath of the July 8 decision by the Key West City Commission to allow the local police force to assist with ICE arrests, revoking the city’s sanctuary status.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/4dmh0
—Zack Ford details the aftermath of the July 8 decision by the Key West City Commission to allow the local police force to assist with ICE arrests, revoking the city’s sanctuary status.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/4dmh0
August 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“People were disappearing everywhere.”
—Zack Ford details the aftermath of the July 8 decision by the Key West City Commission to allow the local police force to assist with ICE arrests, revoking the city’s sanctuary status.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/4dmh0
—Zack Ford details the aftermath of the July 8 decision by the Key West City Commission to allow the local police force to assist with ICE arrests, revoking the city’s sanctuary status.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/4dmh0
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Here's my piece on how U.S. higher education's economic argument for international students lost its oomph
www.chronicle.com/article/how-...
www.chronicle.com/article/how-...
August 4, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Here's my piece on how U.S. higher education's economic argument for international students lost its oomph
www.chronicle.com/article/how-...
www.chronicle.com/article/how-...
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When you strip away humanity
July 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
When you strip away humanity
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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Why another protest? What is it going to accomplish? Shouldn’t we be [insert alternate tactic] instead?
These are good-faith questions, and they stem from very reasonable concerns. So let’s take a step back and talk about the role of a peaceful mass mobilization like No Kings.
These are good-faith questions, and they stem from very reasonable concerns. So let’s take a step back and talk about the role of a peaceful mass mobilization like No Kings.
The Strategic Logic of the No Kings Protests
By Leah Greenberg, Indivisible Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director
indivisibleteam.medium.com
June 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Why another protest? What is it going to accomplish? Shouldn’t we be [insert alternate tactic] instead?
These are good-faith questions, and they stem from very reasonable concerns. So let’s take a step back and talk about the role of a peaceful mass mobilization like No Kings.
These are good-faith questions, and they stem from very reasonable concerns. So let’s take a step back and talk about the role of a peaceful mass mobilization like No Kings.
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The best way to incentivize peaceful protesting is:
1) don’t arrest peaceful protestors
2) don’t shoot peaceful protestors
3) cover peaceful protestors
4) prioritize the demands of peaceful protestors instead of corporate interests
1) don’t arrest peaceful protestors
2) don’t shoot peaceful protestors
3) cover peaceful protestors
4) prioritize the demands of peaceful protestors instead of corporate interests
June 11, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The best way to incentivize peaceful protesting is:
1) don’t arrest peaceful protestors
2) don’t shoot peaceful protestors
3) cover peaceful protestors
4) prioritize the demands of peaceful protestors instead of corporate interests
1) don’t arrest peaceful protestors
2) don’t shoot peaceful protestors
3) cover peaceful protestors
4) prioritize the demands of peaceful protestors instead of corporate interests
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Babies can only have milk. They can’t even have water. Since Israel is banning all aid including baby formula, these babies will die. And since Israel is also starving everyone in Gaza, moms can’t nurse their babies either. They’re just watching their babies die as they die to.
14,000 babies are at risk of dying in the next 48 hours in Gaza if aid doesn’t reach them, warns Tom Fletcher, the UN’s under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs – a figure he called “utterly chilling.”
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May 20, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Babies can only have milk. They can’t even have water. Since Israel is banning all aid including baby formula, these babies will die. And since Israel is also starving everyone in Gaza, moms can’t nurse their babies either. They’re just watching their babies die as they die to.
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The Trump administration wants to spend tens of billions of dollars to expand immigrant detention to levels never seen before in U.S. history.
We refuse to stand by.
We refuse to stand by.
May 2, 2025 at 8:10 PM
The Trump administration wants to spend tens of billions of dollars to expand immigrant detention to levels never seen before in U.S. history.
We refuse to stand by.
We refuse to stand by.
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Detaining immigrants for their political beliefs is designed to silence dissent and intimidate all of us from speaking out.
It's inhumane, unconstitutional, and a threat to our fundamental rights. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
It's inhumane, unconstitutional, and a threat to our fundamental rights. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Why Trump is jailing student activists in Louisiana
Inside the state’s sprawling and remote ICE detention centers, immigrants feel like they’re ‘screaming into a void’ thousands of miles from home, lawyers and advocates tell Alex Woodward
www.independent.co.uk
April 28, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Detaining immigrants for their political beliefs is designed to silence dissent and intimidate all of us from speaking out.
It's inhumane, unconstitutional, and a threat to our fundamental rights. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
It's inhumane, unconstitutional, and a threat to our fundamental rights. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show.
The Emergency Is Here.
With @asharangappa.bsky.social.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...
The Emergency Is Here.
With @asharangappa.bsky.social.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...
Opinion | The Emergency Is Here (Gift Article)
Trump is disappearing people to a Salvadoran prison for terrorists. And he says he wants to send “homegrown” Americans there next.
www.nytimes.com
April 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show.
The Emergency Is Here.
With @asharangappa.bsky.social.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...
The Emergency Is Here.
With @asharangappa.bsky.social.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...
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Excited for all the new American banana and coffee factories.
April 5, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Excited for all the new American banana and coffee factories.
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ICE is transferring innocent people to torture prison in El Salvador.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
U.S. sent Venezuelan man with pending political asylum case to El Salvador mega prison
Frengel Reyes Mota was supposed to be dealing with his ongoing asylum case as he fought for his chance to stay in the United States. Suddenly, he instead found himself locked up in a mega prison thous...
www.miamiherald.com
March 28, 2025 at 9:50 AM
ICE is transferring innocent people to torture prison in El Salvador.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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Also a State Department official said **300** visas of international students who protested against the war in Gaza have been revoked.
The Trump administration is discussing plans to decertify colleges from being able to accept foreign students if they are too "pro-Hamas" — that is, that they had widespread anti-Israel protests, Axios reports.
www.axios.com/2025/03/27/t...
www.axios.com/2025/03/27/t...
Exclusive: Trump's "pro-Hamas" purge could block foreign students from colleges
The planned purge is another escalation of Trump's aggressive crackdown on immigration and antisemitism that civil libertarians say stifles campus speech.
www.axios.com
March 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Also a State Department official said **300** visas of international students who protested against the war in Gaza have been revoked.
“They are betting that when you hear Mahmoud’s name, or the word “Palestinian,” the parts of you that make you a thinking and rational and caring person will switch off, and you will believe the worst about him, and you will turn a blind eye to these grave violations of his rights.”
March 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM
“They are betting that when you hear Mahmoud’s name, or the word “Palestinian,” the parts of you that make you a thinking and rational and caring person will switch off, and you will believe the worst about him, and you will turn a blind eye to these grave violations of his rights.”
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Nothing justifies disappearing a person. History is riddled with those who thought their proximity to power protected them until it didn’t. Those justifying Khalil’s disappearance are traitors to our country. I don’t say this lightly, and I mean it sincerely.
“We have not been able to get any more details about why he is being detained,” his lawyer, Amy Greer told the AP. “This is a clear escalation. The administration is following through on its threats.”
Read more from @apnews.com's Jake Offenhartz
apnews.com/article/colu...
Read more from @apnews.com's Jake Offenhartz
apnews.com/article/colu...
ICE arrests Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University protests, his lawyer says
A prominent Palestinian activist who helped lead last spring's protests at Columbia University has been arrested by federal immigration agents.
apnews.com
March 10, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Nothing justifies disappearing a person. History is riddled with those who thought their proximity to power protected them until it didn’t. Those justifying Khalil’s disappearance are traitors to our country. I don’t say this lightly, and I mean it sincerely.
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*New English & Spanish #KYR*
DHS has expanded its use of the 'expedited removal' process. Undocumented community members are now at greater risk of being put in a rapid deportation process - without the right to appear in front of an immigration judge.
What changed & how people can prepare 🧵
DHS has expanded its use of the 'expedited removal' process. Undocumented community members are now at greater risk of being put in a rapid deportation process - without the right to appear in front of an immigration judge.
What changed & how people can prepare 🧵
January 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM
*New English & Spanish #KYR*
DHS has expanded its use of the 'expedited removal' process. Undocumented community members are now at greater risk of being put in a rapid deportation process - without the right to appear in front of an immigration judge.
What changed & how people can prepare 🧵
DHS has expanded its use of the 'expedited removal' process. Undocumented community members are now at greater risk of being put in a rapid deportation process - without the right to appear in front of an immigration judge.
What changed & how people can prepare 🧵
“Democrats don’t need to overcomplicate this. They just need to throw a punch.
…we need to channel our anger into real leverage: organizing, persuading, forcing the political system to respond to us on our terms.”
…we need to channel our anger into real leverage: organizing, persuading, forcing the political system to respond to us on our terms.”
NEW: The leader of the largest immigrant youth organization in the country says Democrats and the progressive movement needs to recalibrate their strategies for the populist era and Democratic Party backsliding on immigrant rights.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/o...
Opinion | Democrats Need to Learn How to Throw a Punch
Republicans have convinced you that immigration is a chaotic crisis. It’s time to reframe the story.
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2025 at 1:14 PM
“Democrats don’t need to overcomplicate this. They just need to throw a punch.
…we need to channel our anger into real leverage: organizing, persuading, forcing the political system to respond to us on our terms.”
…we need to channel our anger into real leverage: organizing, persuading, forcing the political system to respond to us on our terms.”
“‘When someone wants to downplay a book being banned, they won’t call it a ban,’ Friedman said. ‘That’s why certain cases don’t make the news.’
…will often be referred to as an appropriate ‘removal’ or ‘withdrawal’ of material. This has a far less threatening ring to it than ‘censorship’.”
…will often be referred to as an appropriate ‘removal’ or ‘withdrawal’ of material. This has a far less threatening ring to it than ‘censorship’.”
Multi-level barrage of US book bans is "unprecedented," says PEN America
Censorship at local to federal level recalls past authoritarian regimes "but this has never all happened at once," says PEN America's Jonathan Friedman. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... #bannedbooks #notahoax
Censorship at local to federal level recalls past authoritarian regimes "but this has never all happened at once," says PEN America's Jonathan Friedman. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... #bannedbooks #notahoax
Multi-level barrage of US book bans is ‘unprecedented’, says PEN America
Censorship at local to federal level recalls past authoritarian regimes ‘but this has never all happened at once’
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2025 at 2:37 PM
“‘When someone wants to downplay a book being banned, they won’t call it a ban,’ Friedman said. ‘That’s why certain cases don’t make the news.’
…will often be referred to as an appropriate ‘removal’ or ‘withdrawal’ of material. This has a far less threatening ring to it than ‘censorship’.”
…will often be referred to as an appropriate ‘removal’ or ‘withdrawal’ of material. This has a far less threatening ring to it than ‘censorship’.”
I went into this with extreme skepticism, but wow. They really pulled this one off.
www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...
www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...
Netflix’s new adaptation of this beloved book is pretty much perfect
‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’, Gabriel García Márquez’s seminal novel, weaves superstition, sex and the surreal into an unparallelled Spanish-language epic. Helen Coffey assesses whether a new Netfl...
www.the-independent.com
January 3, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I went into this with extreme skepticism, but wow. They really pulled this one off.
www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...
www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...
oxfordamerican.org/magazine/iss... I loved this story by @ohheyrebecca.bsky.social. I had my suspicions about where it was going and ended up being beautifully surprised. Great read.
The Flirt
A t forty-five she has become what she never was before: a flirt. A holder of eye contact, …
oxfordamerican.org
December 27, 2024 at 5:43 PM
oxfordamerican.org/magazine/iss... I loved this story by @ohheyrebecca.bsky.social. I had my suspicions about where it was going and ended up being beautifully surprised. Great read.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
I’m going to use bluesky in 2025 to catalogue my fiction reads if nothing else. “The Leper” by Lee Chang Dong was a great read. Relevance to past, present, and future.
I’m going to use bluesky in 2025 to catalogue my fiction reads if nothing else. “The Leper” by Lee Chang Dong was a great read. Relevance to past, present, and future.
“The Leper,” by Lee Chang-dong
The prosecutor spoke without emotion: “Your father’s been charged with espionage. Spying under orders from the North Korean puppet regime.”
www.newyorker.com
December 27, 2024 at 5:36 PM
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
I’m going to use bluesky in 2025 to catalogue my fiction reads if nothing else. “The Leper” by Lee Chang Dong was a great read. Relevance to past, present, and future.
I’m going to use bluesky in 2025 to catalogue my fiction reads if nothing else. “The Leper” by Lee Chang Dong was a great read. Relevance to past, present, and future.